1:15 AM,
Feb. 1, 2013

Senate Minority Leader Vivian Davis Figures, D-Mobile, said she would work as closely as possible with Republican leaders.

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Newly elected Senate Minority Leader Vivian Davis Figures said at a news conference Thursday she would try to lead her caucus to work with majority Republicans.

"We do have many, many challenges, but I feel you can find common ground anywhere," said Figures, as Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, and Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey, also a Republican, looked on. "I'm a believer in treating people the way you want to be treated. My parents drilled that in us, and it has never failed me."

Figures, a Democrat from Mobile, was elected in 1997 to finish the term of her late husband, Michael Figures, the ...